Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Last Chance Christmas by Joanne Rock Review

Synopsis:

Fashion buyer Shea Walker had a fast track lifestyle until a car accident sidelines herto a painful recovery. Seeking quiet for the holidays, Shea returns to thesnowy mountains where she grew up to make peace with her past and spend timewith her estranged family. She never expected J.C. Royce--now a hockeystar--would return to their hometown, too. Determined to avoid that particularsexy mistake, she's caught off guard when her first night in town brings themface to face.

Seeing Shea practically fall at his feet is gratifying, until J.C. realizes his proudformer friend, who he once thought would become a whole lot more, is trulyhurt--and in more ways than she lets on. Lucky for Shea, he's got a big housejust sitting empty and a tree ready to decorate, as she is in no shape to stayby herself. With his bad boy arrogance down to an art form after eight years inthe NHL, J.C. is more than a match for feisty Shea. Especially when it comes toher outrageous claim that there was never any chemistry between them...

But when it comes to convincing her to stick around town until the New Year, hejust might need a Christmas miracle.

My Review:

Shea Walker hasn’t had the best of luck lately.She is still recovering from a car accident
and she recently lost her job.She
hasn’t spent Christmas with her parents in a while, so she decides to make the
long drive from New York City to Cloud Spin Vermont to surprise them.But the surprise is on her.When Shea arrives, she finds the house dark,
no Christmas decorations and no one there to welcome her with open arms.

Professional hockey player JC Royce is surprised when he
finds Shea at her parents’ house while he is working on the ice rink on their
property.What is she doing there when
her parents have gone to Hawaii for Christmas?JC isn’t going to let Shea get away from him this time.They both have unfinished business with each
other.So, JC keeps it a secret that he
doesn’t have the key to her parents’ house in order to get Shea to stay with
him.

The reunion is going great between Shea and JC until Shea
finds out JC withheld the fact that he had a key to her parents’ house and she
could have been staying there.Will Shea
let this small deception ruin what they have gained over the last couple days;
especially when she is making plans to move back home and open a store?How far will JC go to keep Shea in his life
this time?

I was pulled into this story from the start.I really liked JC and Shea and the
descriptions of the town of Cloud Spin were easy to picture.There were small areas with different
characters, but not so many to take attention off the main characters.I like that fact because sometimes authors
have so many characters it’s hard to keep everyone straight.I would love to read more books like this.